Pornographer David Stanley is on record (in his BTS pronouncements) as wishing he could have had a career in rock & roll had he not opted for the Adult biz. This unsatisfactory Vivid vehicle for contract superstar Chloe Jones is his soap box about punk rock and is so poorly made that it beggars description.
The fact that it garnered six AVN award nominations might merely be evidence of payola, lip service to the powerful Vivid Video label, but methinks it reflects the idiocy of the media covering porn.
Among the inadequacies here are poor lighting, very poor sound recording of dialog, crummier sets than usual, even for a Vivid quickie by Stanley, unbearably bad acting (Eric Masterson pretending to be a stoned-out punk rocker gives the worst performance of his career), intentionally ugly visuals, so much so as to represent a Cult of Ugliness bias, and mechanical sex scenes. The actual performance by Eric's band on stage is clutzy, unconvincing, and with a nonexistent audience represented at first by dubbed in crowd nice. Add to this an eclectic and constantly annoying musical background, featuring library music from classical ("Ride of the Valkyries") to jazz and elevator music, often clashing with the content of a scene.
Stanley's script is a facile cry against the bubble gum style of rock which succeeded punk rock, at least in the auteur's estimation. A key scene introduces a trio of dreaded Millennial nerds (Tony Tedeschi, Rachel Rotten and Tyler Wood) who are buying the rock club, sort of a destitute man's CBGBs, from Randy Spears, to turn it into a yogurt shop. They are caricatured as everything Stanley hates about plastic society, he being one of the self-styled outlaw porn purveyors and keeper of the rock & roll faith.
Rotten gets a big sex scene with her other half, mucho tattooed Rob Rotten, sporting a spiky Mohawk hairdo, in a typically ugly bathroom setting. Stanley also dishes out 2 d.p. scenes, one featuring Trinity James and the other with Olivia O'Lovely, latter styled and photographed as unflatteringly as possible.
With Chris Cannon on drums and a bit player Sal on bass guitar, Eric's group merely caricatures punk rock. Stanley cannot resist throwing into the audience (plus another extranous scene) his beloved Gorilla Suit character named "Big Baloney Sandwich", his presence merely cryptic in this video.
Title on screen and repeated in the BTS is "Low Life", but DVD packaging lists it as "The Low Lifes" instead.
The fact that it garnered six AVN award nominations might merely be evidence of payola, lip service to the powerful Vivid Video label, but methinks it reflects the idiocy of the media covering porn.
Among the inadequacies here are poor lighting, very poor sound recording of dialog, crummier sets than usual, even for a Vivid quickie by Stanley, unbearably bad acting (Eric Masterson pretending to be a stoned-out punk rocker gives the worst performance of his career), intentionally ugly visuals, so much so as to represent a Cult of Ugliness bias, and mechanical sex scenes. The actual performance by Eric's band on stage is clutzy, unconvincing, and with a nonexistent audience represented at first by dubbed in crowd nice. Add to this an eclectic and constantly annoying musical background, featuring library music from classical ("Ride of the Valkyries") to jazz and elevator music, often clashing with the content of a scene.
Stanley's script is a facile cry against the bubble gum style of rock which succeeded punk rock, at least in the auteur's estimation. A key scene introduces a trio of dreaded Millennial nerds (Tony Tedeschi, Rachel Rotten and Tyler Wood) who are buying the rock club, sort of a destitute man's CBGBs, from Randy Spears, to turn it into a yogurt shop. They are caricatured as everything Stanley hates about plastic society, he being one of the self-styled outlaw porn purveyors and keeper of the rock & roll faith.
Rotten gets a big sex scene with her other half, mucho tattooed Rob Rotten, sporting a spiky Mohawk hairdo, in a typically ugly bathroom setting. Stanley also dishes out 2 d.p. scenes, one featuring Trinity James and the other with Olivia O'Lovely, latter styled and photographed as unflatteringly as possible.
With Chris Cannon on drums and a bit player Sal on bass guitar, Eric's group merely caricatures punk rock. Stanley cannot resist throwing into the audience (plus another extranous scene) his beloved Gorilla Suit character named "Big Baloney Sandwich", his presence merely cryptic in this video.
Title on screen and repeated in the BTS is "Low Life", but DVD packaging lists it as "The Low Lifes" instead.